Dale Lauterback
- Oct 8, 2022
- 2 min read

Tracking Animals for Photography: Final Results - Reptiles

Updated: Jul 6, 2023

It's been a year since I started this project last September of 2021 which included four seasons, well if you can call it four seasons in California. Even though it doesn't seem like four seasons, nature still follows a schedule. The natural schedule of things has an extra layer of complication added to my research area. This extra layer is the availability of water, and when spring the busiest time for nature comes around the water starts to disappear.

Out of all the wildlife in my research area, the reptiles were the least abundant. In early spring the only reptile I came across was a California Tree frog. As summer came many lizards sunned themselves in the early morning including newly born Horned Lizards (Horny Toads).

I was hoping for more snakes. It was a good year for rabbits, Squirrels, and mice, but I only saw one snake the whole year and that was a Gopher snake. I even went as far as looking for rattlesnakes at certain times of the day and in the places they would be, but no luck.

Reptiles in the area:	Confirmed
California Blackheaded Snake California King Snake California Toad California Tree Frog California Whipsnake Desert Horned Lizard Desert Spiny Lizard Diamondback Rattlesnake Garter Snake Gopher Snake Racer Snake Side-blotched Lizard Spotted Whiptail Lizard Western Fence Lizard	No No No Yes No Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes	- - - Visual, Photo - Visual, Photo Visual, Photo - - Visual, Photo - Visual, Photo Visual, Photo Visual, Photo